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Leverage IT Trends for Mission-Critical Workloads With Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions

In today’s fast-paced world, IT organizations spend almost a quarter of

their time and resources evaluating and installing increasingly disparate

hardware components. They must integrate servers, storage and net-

working infrastructure, and then add a virtualization layer on which they

can finally place enabling and application software. Deployment times

are often lengthy ordeals, where products don’t work or integrate as

easily as their respective suppliers have advertised. As such, there’s

an opportunity cost that often exceeds an organization’s business plan

prediction. In addition, today’s business leaders are dealing with bud-

gets that have a large, fixed-cost component. To solve this problem,

many organizations are evaluating converged infrastructure solutions.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has addressed these challenges by creating a range of converged infrastructure solutions that offer IT organizations flexible and highly inte-grated turnkey offerings. Now, IT organi-zations can immediately deploy a flexible solution composed of servers, storage, networking switches and software prod-ucts. Capabilities include data protection and management, and the solutions are tested with specific workloads for applica-tions from HDS partners.

These converged infrastructure solutions from HDS and its partners are validated and certified to ensure their supportability. They are sold as reference solutions, and they include the flexibility users require to mix and match some of the components. For even faster deployments, IT organizations can immediately install a tightly integrated turnkey converged infrastructure solution for private cloud. This turnkey solution features 3rd-party virtualization, which is preconfig-ured and certified to run a large or midsize data center’s mission-critical applications. In addition, HDS handles all your technical support needs for the whole solution. No more vendor finger-pointing. Just call us!

Move Important Applications to Your Private Cloud or Managed Hosting Services Provider

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Introducing Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions for Mission-Critical WorkloadsHitachi Data Systems offers 2 solution types: The 1st is known as Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Select, also referred to as a reference solution. Hitachi offers several categories of these horizon-tally focused reference solutions and contin-ually expands and refreshes these offerings to deliver best-in-class solutions that keep pace with your business needs. The 2nd solution expands upon UCP Select. It is known as Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro, also referred to as an integrated turn-key solution.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select

UCP Select solutions represent a portfo-lio of best-in-class integrated converged infrastructure platforms. They accelerate the most used applications in desktop and server virtualization, collaboration, database, data warehousing and business analytics. Each UCP Select solution offers investment protection through a building-block approach that easily expands when needed. This functionality ensures that IT organizations can quickly and efficiently meet the rapidly changing needs of their employer. Plus, a customizable open architecture can extend UCP Select capabilities while eliminating inevitable component compatibility concerns.

IT organizations achieve improved business economics through lower capital expendi-ture (CAPEX), operating expenditure (OPEX) and total cost of ownership (TCO) over the traditional 3-year measurement period. Much of an organization’s budget is used to support fixed costs. These solutions offer business efficiencies that can be turned into a competitive advantage because they offer almost immediate deployment with greater workload throughput to improve business velocity and profitability.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

The appeal of UCP Pro is that it helps IT organizations substantially cut deployment time and complexity associated with imple-menting a foundation platform to support a public or private cloud infrastructure. UCP Pro has all the hardware and software ele-ments of UCP Select but has an additional orchestration layer. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director delivers the orchestration capabilities IT professionals require to easily and quickly manage and administrate a virtualized cloud infrastructure.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for VirtualizationEach UCP solution for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Private Cloud is specifically con-figured to maximize the value of your server virtualization environment. Equipment is neither overpurchased nor overprovisioned.

Improve organizational agility by quickly deploying new applications and services to respond to changes in business needs and integrate them into current environ-ments. Have certainty with the predictable reliability of a robust private cloud platform aligned to business service levels. Reduce

management cost and complexity with coordinated comprehensive provisioning and administration of virtualized private cloud environments. Simplify the order-ing and procurement process as well as deploying and managing physical and virtual resources. Increase operational efficiency and resource utilization by aligning business processes to IT execution.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere

Hitachi UCP solutions are designed for maxi-mum performance and utilization, leveraging Hitachi best-in-class hardware and software technology. Unlike other offerings, UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is an open platform that can support multiple storage systems through industry-leading Hitachi virtualization technology. Administrators also can have the ability to select from different server CPU and memory configurations to best meet their workload needs, or to offer multiple tiers of compute resources.

UCP Pro for VMware vSphere offers com-prehensive and simplified management via the innovative Hitachi UCP Director soft-ware. UCP Director significantly reduces time to value and operational costs for even the most demanding applications. UCP Director’s deep integration into VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter enables faster deployment of cloud infrastructure and efficient resource allocation. It also enables simple automation and orchestration for streamlined infrastructure management.

Hitachi Data Systems keeps pace with your business needs with 2 best-in-class solution types for mission-critical workloads: Hitachi UCP Select, a reference solution, and Hitachi UCP Pro, an integrated turnkey solution.

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Bring infrastructure on board quickly with faster deployment and preconfigured elements. Automate and orchestrate the management of essential infrastructure components as unified pools of business resources from directly within the VMware vCenter management console. Simplified configuration and integration of all solution components accelerates time to value for your most demanding applications.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware vSphere with Cisco® UCS

This is complete end-to-end reference solution for VMware vSphere 5 delivers the highest performance, availability and efficiency in the industry. It uses industry-leading components from Hitachi and Cisco, and is designed around Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), Cisco Unified Fabric network and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). These compute, network and storage resources are natively integrated with VMware vSphere 5, creating a simple, flexible and cost-effective deployment of your virtualized data center architecture.

VSP is the only storage system in the industry to offer a 100% data availabil-ity warranty. Its native integration means multiple VMware ESXi servers can offload workloads, such as VMotion, to the Hitachi storage controller. This frees resources on the server, reduces traffic on the network and dramatically improves infrastructure efficiency.

Using only tested and validated compo-nents, UCP Select for VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS reduces the risk of introducing new technologies to your data center.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft® Private Cloud

Reap the benefits of private cloud solutions quickly, with predictable performance, faster deployment and less risk. UCP Select for Microsoft Private Cloud gives you a prevali-dated reference solution. It provides guides to combine compute blades and storage from Hitachi Data Systems with network infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V and System Center 2012 software.

Create building blocks for a cloud environ-ment that give you the flexibility to scale quickly, as needed, with known results. It's all based on industry-leading high-quality

appliance. To deploy this solution even faster, use one of the Hitachi Global Systems Integrator Partners or Hitachi Consulting Corporation for immediate return on your investment (ROI).

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Databases and Data WarehousingTo keep up with the growth of databases, companies have rushed to add storage and servers without considering how existing stor-age resources might be better utilized. Adding resources often requires more administrators and software layers to manage the expan-sion. Without a holistic strategy for optimizing Oracle Database or Microsoft SQL Server® environments, unsystematic growth and its associated uncontrolled costs can create an increasingly expensive cycle.

Through a combination of Hitachi UCP Select solutions and our expertise in Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server environments, Hitachi Data Systems can help your com-pany control capital and operational costs. At the same time, we can help you increase performance, data protection and flexibility. We help ensure the right information is available in the right place, at the right time — and for the right cost.

Hitachi storage, so you can quickly address current business needs.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Business AnalyticsHitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for SAP HANA™ Scale-Up

UCP Select for SAP HANA Scale-Up combines Hitachi enterprise-class compute blades and Hitachi optimized, enterprise-class storage systems, as well as standard network infrastructure from Brocade. This integrated platform offers high-performing and scalable SAP HANA real-time analytics and applications.

SAP High-Performance Analytic Application (HANA) is a modern platform that lets you analyze business operations based on a large volume and variety of detailed data in real time. In addition, SAP also delivers a class of real-time applications, powered by the SAP HANA platform. These applications can be deployed as an appliance or delivered as a service via the cloud.

UCP Select for SAP HANA Scale-Up delivers SAP in-memory computing technology on an optimally configured appliance that scales for more capacity without adding complexity. This solution is delivered as a ready-to-deploy

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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Oracle Database

UCP Select for Oracle Database is engi-neered to support older Oracle database releases (9i and 10g) and the most up-to-date version, 11g. They are pretested and qualified to provide predictable performance and the highest reliability in demanding, dynamic Oracle environments, something Hitachi has been offering for over 20 years. This solution combines Hitachi compute and storage components and is validated to ensure consistent, predictable results for mission-critical environments running Oracle online transaction and application process-ing (OLTP and OLAP).

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft® SQL Server®

UCP Select for Microsoft SQL Server is engineered to solve performance concur-rency issues. It does this by using a bal-anced architecture of compute and storage processing power for general and com-plex queries. Complex queries must have matching CPU and storage performance to avoid slow sequential reads to fill query requirements. Anything else is considered an unbalanced system, which results in slow data warehouse reporting, dashboards and analytics that end users find unacceptable. Further, mounting additional data volumes increases the amount of supported data and also increases the number of end users who wish to access the data.

Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehousing solutions are reaching a point where enterprises now consider them mission-critical “must haves” that help them to stay competitive. UCP Select for Microsoft SQL Server can help these enterprise users to fast track deployment of a balanced solution and immediately query large amounts of data.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for CollaborationRegardless of the size of an organization, Microsoft Exchange administrators are constantly faced with shifting and adjusting resources. They must meet end user and business requirements in a predictable and scalable manner. Or, they may request that their IT departments adjust resources on their behalf. Capacity, performance and avail-ability needs are often at odds with budget constraints, as well as each other. These concerns require careful balancing in order to meet data and application expectations.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft® Exchange Server® 2010

UCP Select for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is engineered for rapid deployment. It is tightly integrated with the powerful features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for resilience, predictable performance and seamless scalability. This solution supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 Availability Group (DAG) and starts at 5,000 mailboxes. It can then be easily and quickly expanded in a building block approach to 96,000 mailboxes. This type of expandability means there’s no upfront overpurchasing or overprovisioning. Companies and Internet service providers can grow their head count through acquisitions or online offers, without worrying about whether their back-end infrastructure can handle the growth.

Hitachi Service Offerings Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services (GSS) offers proven methodologies and a comprehensive Professional Services portfolio to help manage solution infrastruc-ture. Our team of professionals understands

the latest in integrated solutions, related technologies and complex IT architectures. We take a strategic approach to services by linking technology to business require-ments. That means we can deliver a best-fit, high-performance solution tailored to meet precise business needs.

For Hitachi UCP Pro and Hitachi UCP Select solutions, GSS provides best practices and knowledge on how best to design, plan and implement your stor-age infrastructure to optimize migrations and management. Working with Hitachi Consulting and other leading consultants, GSS can provide an extended range of application services. We address all solution environments, including assessments and readiness, architecture design, solution implementation and deployment.

These services could include:

■■ Server migrations.

■■ Data migration planning.

■■ Design and implementation for the con-verged platform.

■■ Archiving and compliance.

■■ Unified communications.

■■ Managed services (onsite and remote options available).

For More InformationTo learn more about how Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions can help you spend less time managing your converged infrastructure for the private cloud and more time solving business challenges, please contact your Hitachi Data Systems repre-sentative or visit www.HDS.com.